immersion series

wild baskets series

This 7 part series meets one Saturday a month for an immersive dive into basket making through the seasons. Our learning will cover reading the landscape for basketry materials, harvesting, processing and preparing plants into workable material and exploring different techniques of basket making. We will create a collection of wild and beautiful baskets, deepening our connections to ourselves, the earth and each other.

Projects include: bark containers, cordage with soft fibers, woven bark baskets, coiling with grasses, ribbed baskets, twining and diagonal plaiting. Note that depending on the project, not all baskets will be completed within the day and may require you to do some “homework.”

2025 Dates: 4th Saturday of the Month April-October

April 26, May 24, June 28, July 26, August 23, September 27, October 25

Cost is sliding scale $550-750

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willow basket series

A deep dive into willow basketry in community. This series will include 4 hands on classes learning about growing the material and 4 weekends of weaving. Students will experience harvesting, sorting, planting and tending the willow, expanding their relationship with the material beyond the weaving. The classes will follow four different themes, allowing students to apply, embody and advance their weaving techniques while working with the metaphors and teachings of the willow and the weaving experience. The four classes will be:

~ Connection and Spontaneity: weaving with green (fresh) willow

~ Foundations in the Round: making a market basket

~ Honing Inward: multiple, smaller baskets

~ Expanding Creations: choosing a larger project (pack or laundry baskets)

2025 Workshops dates: February 1&2 (make up/snow date March 8&9), May 3&4, August 2&3, November 1&2

Hands on Class Date: To be dertemines

Cost is sliding scale $ 1200-1400

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